Call number:
9/M 01.0095
In:
Geological Society special publication
Description / Table of Contents:
The evolution of oceanic plates is very well described by plate tectonic theory, but the study of continental tectonics is more complicated. Continental plates have a different rheology, a greater mean age, a higher heat productivity, and are more heterogeneous in composition. An understanding of continental tectonics requires, therefore, that these effects upon rigid plate behaviour be taken into account.
This book brings together a series of papers which explore various aspects of the deformation of continental lithosphere, covering different tectonic settings from the Palaeozoic to the present day.These include the processes of terrane accretion and juxtaposition, the exhumation of high-pressure terrains, and mechanisms of crustal extension and rifting.
The book will be of general interest to a broad audience of earth scientists concerned with global tectonics, continental growth processes, and the deformation of the continents during collision, exhumation and extension.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
X, 341 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
1862390517
Series Statement:
Geological Society special publication 164
URL:
http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/164/1
Classification:
Tectonics
Note:
Paul D. Ryan: Preface / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:vii-x, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.01 ---
P. D. Ryan and C. Mac Niocaill: Continental Tectonics: an introduction / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:1-6, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.02 ---
Peter F. Ballance: Simplification of the Southwest Pacific Neogene arcs: inherited complexity and control by a retreating pole of rotation / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:7-19, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.03 ---
Laurent Jolivet, Claudio Faccenna, Nicola D’Agostino, Marc Fournier, and Dan Worrall: The kinematics of back-arc basins, examples from the Tyrrhenian, Aegean and Japan Seas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:21-53, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.04 ---
John Dewey and Maria Mange: Petrography of Ordovician and Silurian sediments in the western Irish Caledonides: tracers of a short-lived Ordovician continent-arc collision orogeny and the evolution of the Laurentian Appalachian-Caledonian margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:55-107, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.05 ---
J. A. Plant, P. Stone, and J. R. Mendum: Regional geochemistry, terrane analysis and metallogeny in the British Caledonides / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:109-125, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.06 ---
Nicholas Rast, Frank R. Ettensohn, and Diana E. Rast: Taconian seismogenic deformation in the Appalachian Orogen and the North American Craton / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:127-137, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.07 ---
M. P. Searle, D. J. Waters, M. W. Dransfield, B. J. Stephenson, C. B. Walker, J. D. Walker, and D. C. Rex: Thermal and mechanical models for the structural and metamorphic evolution of the Zanskar High Himalaya / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:139-156, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.08 ---
M. A. Forster and G. S. Lister: Separate episodes of eclogite and blueschist facies metamorphism in the Aegean metamorphic core complex of Ios, Cyclades, Greece / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:157-177, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.09 ---
V. Pease and J. Argent: The Northern Sacramento Mountains, southwest United States. Part I: Structural profile through a crustal extensional detachment system / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:179-198, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.10 ---
V. Pease, D. Foster, J. Wooden, P. O’Sullivan, J. Argent, and C. Fanning: The Northern Sacramento Mountains, southwest United States. Part II: Exhumation history and detachment faulting / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:199-203,NP,205-226,NP,228-232,NP,233-238, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.11 ---
Z. R. Beydoun: Evolution and development of the Levant (Dead Sea Rift) Transform System: A historical-chronological review of a structural controversy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:239-255, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.12 ---
M. A. Khan, J. Mechie, C. Birt, G. Byrne, S. Gaciri, B. Jacob, G. R. Keller, P. K. H. Maguire, O. Novak, I. O. Nyambok, J. P. Patel, C. Prodehl, D. Riaroh, S. Simiyu, and H. Thybo: The lithospheric structure of the Kenya Rift as revealed by wide-angle seismic measurements / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:257-269, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.13 ---
Garry D. Karner and Neal W. Driscoll: Style, timing and distribution of tectonic deformation across the Exmouth Plateau, northwest Australia, determined from stratal architecture and quantitative basin modelling / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:271-311, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.14 ---
Jeffrey A. Karson and C. Kent Brooks: Structural and magmatic segmentation of the Tertiary East Greenland Volcanic Rifted Margin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:313-338, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.15 ---
Erratum ---
Erratum: Thermal and mechanical models for the structural and metamorphic evolution of the Zanskar High Himalaya / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 164:ERR, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.17
Location:
Reading room
Branch Library:
GFZ Library
